Yet the first
biathlon world championship was not held until 1958.
Not exact matches
Martin Fourcade has won the overall
World Cup for the past six years, the longest reign in the history of the
biathlon.
Last February he got the silver medal in the 20 - km race at the
world championships, the highest finish for an American in international
biathlon competition.
The American record in major
biathlon meets is dismal — last in 1958
world championships and third from last in 1959.
The current
world biathlon champion is, unsurprisingly, a Russian, Vladimir Melanin.
Whether or not this applies to just members of their national teams is unclear, with the first notable implementation of this rule applying to the next round of the
World Biathlon Championship in Tyumen.
In fact, it's more like the
biathlon of the game
world, except instead of skiing and shooting, you chase people and things on high - speed vehicles, fire automatic weapons, and play poker.